Where the Roosters and Rabbitohs match will be won and lost

The build up to any clash between the Roosters and Rabbitohs is always fraught. It comes with the territory.

When they clash with a spot in the finals on the line, it hypes up further. Whoever wins at Accor Stadium on Friday night, there might be an acceptance that both have underachieved.

Pre-season, the Roosters were second favourites (behind the Panthers) and Souths were in third behind them. 

For one of them to miss the eight would be an abject disaster, while whoever makes it through is going to go the long way round to any sort of success in the post-season.

That they were both…